"What, where am I?" At that exact moment, I gasped and almost began screaming. Jamie was lying down in the bed on my right with blood being fed to him through a murky red tube to try and sustain him long enough for his speed healing to kick in. He was not dead yet, but the witches seemed unable to remove the stake from his body. Then I turned to my right, Mary-Lynette had about a dozen tubes going into her, but at least they had been able to remove the silver knife from her chest. It was at that moment that Thea came in.

I was so happy to see her! Thea had been the first night person beside Jamie to be kind to me. She soon became one of my best friends and me, her and Mary-Lynette were very close, she would help me!

"Thea, what happened, how are Jamie and Mary-Lynette?"

"Why do you care? Seeing as you were the one that as good as murdered them!"

"What? No I didn't, it was Ash. You have to believe me!"

"No, Ash discovered your little murderfest. You, James and Mary-Lynette went up to the training room to play some fighting games. You and James had an argument and so you staked him. You then approached Mary-Lynette and began to drink her blood, leaving only a litre and a half in her body I might add; when she struggled to get away you proceeded to throw the silver knife at her."

"Thea, your made up garbage was very good, but tell me, how does it explain how I was staked too?"

"Mary-Lynette saw a stake on the floor near where she fell. She normally has very good aim but lack of blood made her dizzy, so she missed and hit the top of your arm instead."

"Thea... no! I didn't do it. Why would I hurt Jamie, why would I hurt my soul mate, the other half of my soul? Would you try to kill Eric?"

"Never. But I am not you, I am not a sick, twisted monster. Ash was so heartbroken that he ran as far away as he possibly could so that he could escape the horror."

"Yes. Escape the horror of what he did." I was really getting annoyed now. They couldn't all even think that I would do anything like that, even my brother must hate me now. I tried to think of something that would make her see. And then it hit me. " Thea, when nobody believed you that it was always Blaise who did all of the things that got you expelled, it really hurt. Didn't it? It felt like people were shoving you around and shunning you. But you still had people who loved you, didn't you? Like Grandma Harman, Eric and even Blaise on a certain level. You were never completely alone, were you?"

"No, but... You didn't do it. Did you Poppy? I can see it in your eyes. Unity, daughter of Hectate."

"I would never do anything like that. Please can you help me." I struggled up into a sitting position. "Please tell me everything that happened when we were discovered. Well, what everyone THINKS happened."

"You were found by Ash, he saw His soulmate on the floor and began to scram, everyone else soon came running up to the training room, minus Jez, Morgead, Blaise and Phil and saw you all. You were next to the weapons rack with a stake still clutched in your hand, it had blood on it but only a little. It came from a small cut on James' leg. This meant that you tortured him as there were many other small cuts along his body. Mary-Lynette was found on her front with bite marks on her neck and wrists. There was a small pile of Rashel's yew practice stakes next to her and the silver knife was in her shoulder."

" Wait, we were found by Jez and Morgead. Jez tried to help me and started to scream. She hasn't dealt with stakes or anything since the accident with Lilly, you know that she can't deal with them."

" Jez and Morgead were found by the door to the bathroom unconscious. Since nobody was anywhere near them we thought that Jez had smelt blood and passed out, bringing Morgead with her. I am sorry Poppy, but there is no way that anyone will believe us. Unless... no, I couldn't do that to you, it would be far too risky."

I was now getting confused and irritated and so told her as much.

" Since the apocalypse is dawning, I am able to read people's minds. That is how I knew that I could trust you. I can also extract memories from your head and put them in a potion, whoever drinks even a sip of the potion sees the memory. I really do NOT want to extract this memory from you though, it is horrible and excruciating. You are not fully healed yet."

"Thea, please. You are my only hope. Give me some witch potion to numb the pain if you are that worried, but anyway, I will be absolutely fine!"

She still didn't look very happy, but still she went and bought back a vile smelling solution and poured it down my throat. It immediately made me feel woosy and like I was floating. Then she started.

It was like there was a fire in my head. It took all of my willpower not to scream. It was almost like my head was being staked. This was worse than any pain that I have ever felt before. And then it was over.

I must have blacked out at some point because the next thing I knew I was crying and Thea was apologising and stroking my hair. She must have then left me and I fell asleep because the next thing I knew Jez was back. It is not often vampires pass out, and so she had no recollection of any of it. Of course they didn't actually pass out; they were knocked out by Ash so that he could arrange the murder scene.

It was then that an entire group of people, everyone filed in. They all looked very sorry that they had accused me and were now committed to finding Ash so that they could make him pay. Thierry wanted to question me, but together Hannah, Thea and Jez shooed him away, saying that they would ask me any questions that were needed. But for now I needed to rest.